NBC Uses Isilon IQ to Create and Deliver Unprecedented Broadcast Coverage of the Olympic Winter Games in Torino

NBC Uses Isilon IQ to Create and Deliver Unprecedented Broadcast Coverage of the Olympic Winter Games in Torino

Isilon Clustered Storage Enables NBC to Make Critical, Real-Time Editing Decisions Required to Deliver 418 Hours of the Very Best Olympic Winter Game Moments to Millions of Viewers Across Several NBC Universal Networks

SEATTLE, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Isilon(R) Systems, the leader in clustered storage, today announced that NBC is using Isilon IQ as one of the storage solutions used to power its broadcast coverage of the XX Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy, February 10-26. NBC is primed to deliver the most broadcast coverage across the most platforms of any Winter Olympics in history. The Networks of NBC Universal, NBC, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC HD and Universal HD will provide a record 418 hours of coverage, including the most live and high definition coverage in Olympic television history. Following NBC's successful use of Isilon IQ for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, NBC is storing a majority of the Olympic Winter Game content on more than 15 Terabytes of Isilon clustered storage, providing NBC producers with the rapid review, identification and selection capabilities necessary to quickly produce and deliver compelling Olympic Winter Games coverage.

"NBC has continued to grow and create new broadcast platforms in which we can bring the many fascinating Olympic stories and events to our millions of viewers," said Matt Adams, Director of Technology for NBC Olympics. "We had such great success in Athens that we wanted to leverage our relationship with Isilon again for a very demanding media environment."

In order to deliver such unprecedented broadcast coverage of the Olympic Winter Games, including video coverage of more than 2,500 athletes from 85 different nations competing in 15 events, with more clips available to producers than ever before, NBC is using a complete solution combining Blue Order's asset management system with Isilon IQ clustered storage. This solution provides NBC's directors and producers with immediate and easily searchable access to all game and background video content, which allows them to quickly and effectively search through countless hours of footage to deliver the best and most compelling Olympic broadcasts to viewers.

"NBC is leveraging state-of-the-art technologies to transform Olympic broadcast coverage by delivering unprecedented volumes of high quality programming to viewers while, at the same time, deriving more revenue from its advertising base, " said Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing & Business Development, Isilon Systems. "Isilon clustered storage products were designed with the idea that storage can be a strategic asset in business. NBC's use of Isilon IQ is a perfect showcase for how clustered storage can help businesses maintain a competitive edge while creating new revenue streams and decreasing costs."

Isilon recently announced the next generation of its award-winning Isilon IQ family of clustered storage systems -- the Isilon IQ 1920, 3000 and 6000 -- which are powered by the latest version of Isilon's award-winning OneFS(TM) distributed file system software and use high-speed, low-latency InfiniBand for intracluster communication.

About NBC Olympics

NBC, "America's Olympic Network," owns the exclusive U.S. media rights to the Olympic Games, television's most powerful property, through 2012, which includes Torino, Italy in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010 and London in 2012. This February, NBC Universal will present the 2006 Olympic Winter Games from Torino, Italy (February 10-26, 2006). In August 2004, 203 million viewers watched as the networks of NBC Universal-NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Bravo, Telemundo, and NBC's HD affiliates-offered a record 1,210 hours of Olympic coverage from Athens. In February 2002, 187 million watched the Salt Lake Olympic Games on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. For additional information, log onto NBCOlympics.com, the Internet's preeminent source for Olympic results, video, photos, news and athlete profiles through the Torino Games. NBCOlympics.com will be the only site in the United States featuring competition video of complete runs and routines, real-time results and medal counts for every event, an interactive television viewing guide to help visitors navigate the 418 hours of Olympic programming on the NBC Universal networks, and comprehensive, multimedia-filled profiles on every American Olympian.

About Isilon Systems

Isilon is the leader in clustered storage. Isilon's award-winning family of Isilon IQ products consists of high-performance clustered storage systems that combine an intelligent distributed file system with modular industry-standard hardware to deliver unmatched simplicity and scalability. Isilon IQ was designed for unstructured data and for use in data-intensive markets such as media and entertainment, digital imaging, life sciences, oil and gas and government. The Seattle-based company is financed by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Atlas Venture, Madrona Venture Group and Focus Ventures. For more information, please visit: http://www.isilon.com/ .

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Source: Isilon Systems

CONTACT: Lucas Welch of Isilon Systems, +1-206-315-7621, or
lwelch@isilon.com

Web site: http://www.isilon.com/

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